Chapter 1116 The Disappearing Amazon Rainforest
In another wooden house, Xiao Peng saw the driver.
As soon as he entered the house, Xiao Peng smelled a strong smell of alcohol, and the Indian pilot's eyes were blurred from drinking. Leaning on the edge of the bed and smoking a tobacco pouch here. In his state, let alone 50,000 US dollars, he didn't dare to do it for 50,000 US dollars, it was a minute-by-minute crashγγγγγγ
However, Yang Meng and the pilot did not fight.
It was really caused by the language barrier between the two people, and the Indians seemed to deliberately not understand Yang Meng's words, and they opened and closed their mouths in Indian.
This is definitely deliberate, I have taken out my flight license, how can I not know English?
Xiao Peng asked Ayu to ask what was going on, and Ayu used to mumble to the Indians and pilots for a long time. came back and said to Xiao Peng: "Mr. Xiao, he said that he wanted to sell the plane." I'll never fly a plane again!"
Xiao Peng asked curiously, "What's going on?"
Ayu said: "That's right, his name is Pete, he is from Makapa, and he asked the company to send him to this ghost place, I heard that it was because the child was sick, but he couldn't come up with the money, and asked the company for help, but he was ignored." So it's a place to drink alcohol. β
"What is he selling airplanes for? This is a company plane, right? Isn't he afraid of breaking the law?" asked Xiao Peng suspiciously.
"Oh, the plane is private, and it is attached to the company, so you can get a sightseeing tour operation certificate. He wanted to mortgage the plane to the company, but the company only gave him $6,000, which was not enough for him to treat the child. Ayu said.
Xiao Peng told Professor McGill what the pilot had said. McGill looked sad when he heard this: "Fifty thousand dollars, how is it possible, it doesn't cost forty thousand dollars to buy a new one of these things, and γγγγγγ Even if you buy it, no one will open it, right?"
"Mengzi, you can take a trip!" Xiao Peng turned back to Yang Meng and said.
Yang Meng frowned: "You want to be a saint again?"
"Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, besides, these people have saved us, haven't they?" Xiao Peng said.
Yang Meng stretched: "Okay, okay, what do you say." Navigate your Beidou to me. I don't want to get lost, in this Nima Amazon rainforest, except for our big Beidou, there is really no good navigation. β
Xiao Peng pointed to the boat: "In my bed, the money is also there." β
Yang Meng turned around and walked out of the room, and McGill asked puzzled, "Xiao, where did Yang go?"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "This guy is going to be a bad guy again, he wants to buy that plane." I went back to the ship to get the money. β
"Huh?" McGill was stunned: "Xiao, you're not kidding me, are you? You just put the money on the boat, aren't you afraid of being stolen?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "As long as those guys on our ship are here, whoever wants to steal it, then steal it." β
McGill came back to his senses at this time, and there were all kinds of fierce beasts on the ship, and he only thought that he had lived too long before he went to Xiao Peng's boat to find excitement.
Not long after, Yang Meng walked back with a stack of money in his hand, and he gave the money to Ayu and asked him to talk to the Indian pilot.
The Indian pilot saw the money in Ayu's hand, stood up directly, and after talking to Ayu and the two for a long time, the pilot ran to Yang Meng's side and hugged Yang Meng, and reported Yang Meng tightly.
Xiao Peng realized that he had misunderstood him. The pilot really didn't know English! Xiao Peng was puzzled, how did he get his pilot's license?
Well, it's very Brazilian.
The pilot had to fly the plane to Manaus by himself, and let Yang Meng press it there. This Nima is drunk in the air, so forget it. I didn't let the spider poison me, but the plane fell and diedγγγγγγ
The Moore M-5 has only four seats, Yang Meng and Ayew sit in the cockpit and co-pilot, and who accompanies Jeremy to Manaus is a question.
McGill wanted to follow, after all, it was his student, but Helena insisted on following.
Well, this is the biggest couple of lovers ------ in love.
After the plane flew away, Xiao Peng was well received by the locals, and all the local fruits and the like were sent over. Only then did Xiao Peng know that the pilot himself was a Kavachi man, who went to Macapa from here, and later came back from Macapa to fly here.
In the eyes of the locals, this is the equivalent of making money in a big city to support the construction of his hometown, but when he encounters difficulties, the people of this village cannot help him, which can make them uncomfortable. And Xiao Peng and the others came to help McGill and their group, and also helped the village. So now they are naturally warmly entertained.
The only pity is that Yang Meng is not there, so everyone agrees that when Yang Meng comes back, they must let them feel the enthusiasm of the rainforest Indians!
Xiao Peng has nothing to do now. and Professor McGill drinking whiskey on his boat. McGill, worthy of being a biology professor, dared to board Xiao Peng's ship------ of course, this was based on the fact that he had already drunk a lot of alcohol on the shore.
"McGill, I really don't understand why you came here to suffer. Xiao Peng toasted McGill with a glass of wine.
McGill shrugged: "Actually, we came this time, we were invited, and the Brazilian Institute of Space Technology has a partnership with our school, which is about the rescue plan of the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest links eight countries, and the worst damage to the Amazon is in Brazil. Since the Rio de Janeiro summit in '92, things have been much better. However, in recent years, the logging situation here has reached a peak again, and a large amount of timber is exported to the country. About six football fields of rainforest are now disappearing every minute. We don't know how long these rainforests will last and how long the animals here will survive, so we're going to take advantage of the opportunity to make more records here. β
When Xiao Peng heard this, he suddenly laughed.
McGill was puzzled: "Mr. Xiao, what are you laughing at?"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "Our Huaxia is the largest timber exporter in the Wa country, and they are the largest timber importer here, isn't this taking off your pants and farting?"
"The Amazon is very important to the planet's climate, there is a lot of rainfall, and rainfall in the tropics is the main driver of the global atmospheric circulation, and there is clear evidence that once the Amazon is severely deforested or disappears, then there will be permanent changes in the climate in distant places, and the current global warming has a serious relationship with over-logging in the Amazon," McGill said. β
Xiao Peng is also very helpless about this: "McGill, in fact, this matter has to be said from two sides, although the Amazon plays a very important role in global climate health, but he is also an important economic source for developing countries like Brazil, look at the eight countries covered by the Amazon rainforest, is there a rich one? Let's just say Brazil, why is the rainforest cut down? Build roads in the jungle, and then the logging company quickly follows and clears the field, looking for precious hardwoods such as rosewood and cedar for export------ otherwise what kind of roads are built in this damn rainforest?" I heard that more than 75 percent of the destroyed rainforests have been turned into pastures, and this was planned by the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, and in order to improve agriculture and animal husbandry, they burned half of Gaul's rainforest, just to increase the area of farmland.
McGill sighed: "I started with Greenpeace and other environmental groups to protest in Barto Grosso, but then I found that what I was doing was useless, they said that here, people are the most important thing, and if they need to cut down trees to save lives, they will not hesitate to cut down trees." β
Xiao Peng nodded: "That's because the governor of Barto Grosso owns the largest breeding enterprise in the whole of Brazil." But then again, in the final analysis, Brazil's industrial structure is too simple, and they can't play with low-tech industries such as animal husbandry and agriculture, as well as high-tech industries such as manufacturing, so they can only rely on farming. And I can't say it to me, the reason why the Amazon rainforest has become what it is now is that you are most responsible for the Maple Leaf Country and the Stars and Stripes Country and Europe. β
McGill frowned after hearing this: "Xiao, what does this matter matter to our country?"
Xiao Peng said with a smile: "Why does Brazil cut down the rainforest? It is to raise cattle and cultivate the land, why do you raise cattle? Because you can make money by raising cattle, why can you make money? Because Brazilian beef exports are in short supply, so where are the exports? North America and Europe; if North America and Europe do not import beef from Brazil, will anyone still raise cattle? In the final analysis, the Amazon rainforest has become what it is now, because of your belly, you protect the environmental protection of your homeland, and then criticize other countries." But you don't want to think about it, you are the root cause of all this. Now almost all of the land reclaimed here is where you, the grain companies of the developed Western countries, grow soybeans and raise cattle, who do you say should bear the responsibility here?"
McGill wanted to refute Xiao Peng, but he couldn't think of words.
Xiao Peng raised his glass: "This is also the inevitability of human development, I think we also experienced such a situation when we were poor in China, when the destruction of forests and fields was endless, and now that China is rich, we will plant trees again." If one day, the people of Brazil become rich, then they may remember the importance of the rainforest and refocus on greenery, but if not, McGill, take more pictures and tell your descendants. There used to be another place in the world called the Amazon rainforest. β
McGill let out a long sigh after hearing this, picked up his wine glass and clinked glasses with Xiao Peng: "Who said it wasn't, take advantage of the opportunity to walk around now." Maybe we won't see anything in the future. β